prasthanatrayi
प्रस्थानत्रयी prasthānatrayīThe 'three sources' of Vedanta on which every school must comment: the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita.
Where this term appears
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
The mechanism for that elevation is the prasthanatrayi , the "three sources" of Vedanta.
- Dharma, Karma and Rebirth Essentials
Dharma is the order that holds things together: cosmic law, social duty and personal righteousness. Karma is action and the moral residue it leaves, which shapes…
- Who Was Adi Shankara? Philosophy
Adi Shankara (most likely c. 700-750 CE; traditionally 788-820) was the philosopher who gave Advaita Vedanta, non-dualism, its definitive systematic form. He wrote…
- The Long Echo Treatise
The tradition fixed three texts as the basis of Vedanta and called them the prasthanatrayi , the three sources, or the three points of departure.
- The Song in the Middle Treatise
…he textual ground for their schools, they fixed on three sources, the prasthanatrayi , the three points of departure: the Upanishads, the Brahma Sutras, and the Bhagavad Gita .
- What is Vedanta? Philosophy
Vedanta, also called Uttara Mimamsa, is the darshana grounded in the *prasthana-traya*: the principal Upanishads, the Brahma Sutra of Badarayana, and the Bhagavad…
- Who Was Madhva? Philosophy
Madhva (c. 1238-1317 CE, or by an alternative tradition 1199-1278) was the founder of *Dvaita*, the dualist school of Vedanta. Against the non-dualists, he taught…